Arts & Entertainment

Dance Film SF announces its 2018 selections for the 9th annual San Francisco Dance Film Festival (SFDFF), featuring dance films from the Bay Area and around the world, running Thursday, October 4 through Sunday, October 14 across five venues. Along with screenings, the festival will include brief live performances, free presentations, a VR/360 experience room,(…)

RuPaul accepts the award for Outstanding Reality Competition Series (Screen capture by Joey DiGuglielmo) The 70th annual Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in television on Monday night including a few wins for LGBT TV. The biggest night in television kicked off with an opening dance number led by “Saturday Night Live” cast members Kate McKinnon(…)

Former Olympic swimmer Casey Legler’s Godspeed is an audacious attempt to stylistically venture off the beaten path of the traditional sports/addiction memoir. While not always successful in its aesthetic flourishes, the book does offer a bold and innovative glimpse into a fascinating mind and the surreal life of a prodigy athlete. Six feet tall at(…)

The MIll Valley Film Festival (MVFF) is pleased to screen the following LGBTQI-themed films as part of the 41st edition of the festival which returns October 4-14, 2018. ALIFU THE PRINCE/SS The struggle between upholding tradition and moving forward in the modern world is beautifully depicted in this heartfelt tale of the only son of an indigenous(…)

Orlando Entertainment Group, LLC, is pleased to launch Gay Movie Database, the most comprehensive and easily navigable online database of over 1,000 titles of interest to the LGBTQ community. From TV shows to short and feature-length films, the Database will allow users to easily discover new and old cinema that they have never previously found.(…)

I’ve always been confused when reviewers call a book a “fever dream.” The connotations of the description are never clear to me—is it a good thing? Does it signal some postmodern breaking of semantics? Or is that a nice way to describe a book that doesn’t piece itself together? I’ve avoided the term myself, for(…)

The cast of ‘Queer Eye’ (Photo via Netflix) “Queer Eye” and RuPaul scored big at the 70th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards over the weekend. The award show honors achievements in reality, documentary and variety programming. “Queer Eye” won Outstanding Structured Reality Program, Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program and Outstanding Picture Editing for a Structured or Competition Reality(…)

In an early scene of Rebecca Makkai’s new novel, The Great Believers, the protagonist Yale Tishman attends a memorial service for his friend Nico at the house of a mutual friend. Overwhelmed by the reality of Nico’s death and his emotional energy exhausted, he goes upstairs to rest. While resting, he has an imaginary moment(…)

It’s something of a cliché to refer to a novel as much-anticipated, probably because the phrase is too often used to refer to a novel that isn’t much, if at all, anticipated, or maybe because once read, the work disappoints. But History of Violence, Édouard Louis’s followup to his very well-received first novel, The End of Eddy, truly(…)

September 1 – 30 Pointless Sisters’ Art Quilts Opening Reception: Sun, September 2nd, 2-5 pm The Pointless Sisters are a group of local quilters who use a variety of traditional and non-traditional quilting techniques to produce unique, interesting, and innovative fiber arts. This year the Pointless Sisters display their newest contemporary quilts including responses to(…)